The music streaming platform will review criteria such as artists’ live dates and social media presence.

The Artemis missions are paving the way to civilizational decisions. It’s time to ask not just what we can do – but whether we should do it

This month’s splashdown of Artemis II was rightly celebrated as a technical achievement. Four astronauts traveled farther from Earth than any humans in history and returned safely. It is an extraordinary thing to send people into deep space and bring them...

Longitudinal studies are a research jewel, shedding light on motor neurone disease, cot deaths, Alzheimer’s and more. Don’t let the security breach in China put you off joining one

One thing Britain is exceptionally good at is collecting and using health data for research, studying cohorts of people over many decades. A shudder of alarm rippled through the research world at the news this week...

In a landmark trial between Elon Musk and OpenAI’s Sam Altman, the origins of OpenAI are being examined. The Times’s technology reporter Cade Metz explains what’s behind it all.

It’s cheaper and faster to collect people’s opinions using AI, but will it make polls more accurate?

Researchers say results mark a ‘profound change in technology that will reshape medicine’

From George Clooney in ER to Noah Wyle in The Pitt, emergency department doctors have long been popular heroes. But will it soon be time to hang up the scrubs?

A groundbreaking Harvard study has found that AI systems outperformed human doctors in high-pressure emergency medicine triage, diagnosing more...

By attacking the basic settlement between scientists and the state, the US president has proved that experts can’t avoid these fights

Donald Trump’s war on science has been vicious and hugely damaging, but it is worth noting that he has lost some of its biggest battles. Last year, Mr Trump demanded that US federal scientific and medical research funding be cut by about half. But the budget...

Isaiah Thomas, known as hmblzayy, was walking a 3,000-mile challenge when he was hit

Hope that sessions of MDMA-assisted therapy could help soldiers fight longer by helping them process trauma

As the war on drugs approaches its end, a new doctrine could soon take hold: psychedelic drugs for active-duty soldiers suffering from PTSD.

In two studies funded by the Department of Defense (DoD), 186 service personnel with PTSD will likely next year undergo multiple sessions of...

Home affairs has suspended two senior officials after AI ‘hallucinations’ were found in its new immigration white paper.

The AI firm said that unlike previous model bugs, this issue “crept in subtly”.

South Africa will hold its next municipal elections on 4 November, President Cyril Ramaphosa said in a post on X.

Starlink links anglers, organisers and the local community at Mozambique’s premier big-game fishing event.

Sundar Pichai’s bet on full-stack AI – chips, models, cloud – is starting to deliver real commercial returns.